We thought we might have swung the bat too hard with our closing chapter in that book, when we predicted that blogs would usher in a new Age of Conversation.
Ms. PROSE: I mean I have a chapter on sentences in which I quote Raymond Chandler, and it was just hard not to quote Raymond Chandler all the way through the chapter.
It is hard to know what to make of the chapter on astrology, superstition that Ms Sobel appears to take seriously, and which shifts the tone of her book from thoughtful to flaky.